Erica Jong Quotes - Famous Quotes by Erica Jong
Born: 1942-03-26
Died: 0000-00-00
Erica Jong Biography
A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
- Erica Jong, O Magazine, 2003
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Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.
- Erica Jong
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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
- Erica Jong
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Friends LOVE misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too luck or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.
- Erica Jong
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I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me. I have accepted fear as a part of life--specifically the fear of change, the fear of the unknown and I have gone ahead despite the pounding in my heart that says turn back, turn back, you'll die if you venture too far.
- Erica Jong
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I know some good marriages -- marriages where both people are just trying to get through their days by helping each other, being good to each other.
- Erica Jong
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If you don't risk anything you risk even more.
- Erica Jong
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
- Erica Jong
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Love is everything it's cracked up to be…It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
- Erica Jong
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Men and women, women and men. It will never work.
- Erica Jong
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Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
- Erica Jong
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True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.
- Erica Jong
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You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
- Erica Jong
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